Her Russian Returns (#15)

Her Russian Returns (#15) PDF

Author: Red Phoenix

Publisher: Red Phoenix

Published: 2017-08-26

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1537852590

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Rytsar Durov should be dead. But in the BDSM world, loyalties run as deep as kinky passions. Sir Thane Davis is determined to save his Russian brother, but must call on those at the Center to execute his plan. Clinging to hope, Brie trusts the sexy sadist will keep his promise to her. Rytsar is not a man to go down easily, but a sacrifice must be made if he is to survive...

Her Russian Returns

Her Russian Returns PDF

Author: Red Phoenix

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-22

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780692941584

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Rytsar Durov should be dead. But in the BDSM world, loyalties run as deep as kinky passions. Clinging to hope, Brie trusts the sexy sadist will keep his promise to her. Rytsar is not a man to go down easily, but a sacrifice must be made if he is to survive...

Russian Foreign Policy

Russian Foreign Policy PDF

Author: Jeffrey Mankoff

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1442208244

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Introduction: the guns of August -- Contours of Russian foreign policy -- Bulldogs fighting under the rug: the making of Russian foreign policy -- Resetting expectations: Russia and the United States -- Europe: between integration and confrontation -- Rising China and Russia's Asian vector -- Playing with home field advantage? Russia and its post-Soviet neighbors -- Conclusion: dealing with Russia's foreign policy reawakening.

Kachka

Kachka PDF

Author: Bonnie Frumkin Morales

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2017-11-14

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1250089204

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Celebrated Portland chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales brings her acclaimed Portland restaurant Kachka into your home kitchen with a debut cookbook enlivening Russian cuisine with an emphasis on vibrant, locally sourced ingredients. “With Kachka, Bonnie Morales has done something amazing: thoroughly update and modernize Russian cuisine while steadfastly holding to its traditions and spirit. Thank you comrade!” —Alton Brown From bright pickles to pillowy dumplings, ingenious vodka infusions to traditional homestyle dishes, and varied zakuski to satisfying sweets, Kachka the cookbook covers the vivid world of Russian cuisine. More than 100 recipes show how easy it is to eat, drink, and open your heart in Soviet-inspired style, from the celebrated restaurant that is changing how America thinks about Russian food. The recipes in this book set a communal table with nostalgic Eastern European dishes like Caucasus-inspired meatballs, Porcini Barley Soup, and Cauliflower Schnitzel, and give new and exciting twists to current food trends like pickling, fermentation, and bone broths. Kachka’s recipes and narratives show how Russia’s storied tradition of smoked fish, cultured dairy, and a shot of vodka can be celebratory, elegant, and as easy as meat and potatoes. The food is clear and inviting, rooted in the past yet not at all afraid to play around and wear its punk rock heart on its sleeve.

The Return of the Russian Leviathan

The Return of the Russian Leviathan PDF

Author: Sergei Medvedev

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-12-18

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 150953606X

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Winner of the 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize Russia’s relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used chemical weapons on the streets of the UK and created an army of Internet trolls to meddle in the US presidential elections. How should we understand this apparent relapse into aggressive imperialism and militarism? In this book, Sergei Medvedev argues that this new wave of Russian nationalism is the result of mentalities that have long been embedded within the Russian psyche. Whereas in the West, the turbulent social changes of the 1960s and a rising awareness of the legacy of colonialism have modernized attitudes, Russia has been stymied by an enduring sense of superiority over its neighbours alongside a painful nostalgia for empire. It is this infantilized and irrational worldview that Putin and others have exploited, as seen most clearly in Russia’s recent foreign policy decisions, including the annexation of Crimea. This sharp and insightful book, full of irony and humour, shows how the archaic forces of imperial revanchism have been brought back to life, shaking Russian society and threatening the outside world. It will be of great interest to anyone trying to understand the forces shaping Russian politics and society today.

Return of the Russian Czar

Return of the Russian Czar PDF

Author: Matt Drozd

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2023-02-12

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1665736976

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A fairy tale like story filled with romance and intrigue. Readers will travel through time starting with Czar Nicholas’s 1917 abdication of the Russian throne to the present day of 2023 where Russia’s president contrives a sinister plot to deceive the Russian people by thrusting an obscure and unsuspecting descendant of Nicholas’s into becoming the Russian Czar. The suspense thickens and twists when it is discovered that the heir to the throne is American born who becomes loved by the Russian people. The author’s extensive experience in international and military affairs provides the reader with insight as to what may befall Russia’s president if he continues to wage the war in Ukraine.

The Songs of St Petersburg

The Songs of St Petersburg PDF

Author: Amor Towles

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2017-02-09

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0091944244

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility. 'A comic masterpiece.' The Times 'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman.' New York Times Book Review 'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight.' Sunday Times 'Everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight.' Mail on Sunday 'If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky.' Matt Williams, Radio 2 Book Club 'Abundant in humour, history and humanity' Sunday Telegraph 'Wistful, whimsical and wry.' Sunday Express On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. But instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.

The Future Is History

The Future Is History PDF

Author: Masha Gessen

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 159463453X

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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.

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